Friday Free-for-All: Crawling From the Wreckage

I’ve always been of the “enforcement first” school, with the subsequent promise of legalization. I still think it’s the better policy. But many Hispanics fear that there will be nothing beyond enforcement. So, promise amnesty right up front. Secure the border with guaranteed legalization to follow on the day the four border-state governors affirm that illegal immigration has slowed to a trickle.

Imagine Marco Rubio advancing such a policy on the road to 2016. It would transform the landscape. He’d win the Hispanic vote. Yes, win it. A problem fixable with a single policy initiative is not structural. It is solvable.

The other part of the current lament is that the Republican party consistently trails among blacks, young people, and (unmarried) women. (Republicans are plus-seven among married women.) But this is not for reasons of culture, identity, or even affinity. It is because these constituencies tend to be more politically liberal — and Republicans are the conservative party.

The country doesn’t need two liberal parties. Yes, Republicans need to weed out candidates who talk like morons about rape. But this doesn’t mean the country needs two pro-choice parties either. In fact, more women are pro-life than are pro-choice. The problem here for Republicans is not policy but delicacy — speaking about culturally sensitive and philosophically complex issues with reflection and prudence.

Additionally, warn the doomsayers, Republicans must change not just ethnically but ideologically. Back to the center. Moderation above all!

Additionally, warn the doomsayers, Republicans must change not just ethnically but ideologically. Back to the center. Moderation above all!

More nonsense. Tuesday’s exit polls showed that, by an eight-point margin (51–43), Americans believe that government does too much. And Republicans are the party of smaller government. Moreover, onrushing economic exigencies — crushing debt, unsustainable entitlements — will make the argument for smaller government increasingly unassailable.

Mind-boggling. 51% think the government does to much – and many of those nincompoops voted for Obama. Others stayed home, rather than vote for Romney, the moderate.

We’ve established that about three million Republicans stayed home on election day. One of those Republicans called Rush Limbaugh today. At the end of the conversation with this person from Livonia, Michigan, Rush closes with: “If there’s a 70% chance of curing your cancer, but you hold out for a hundred percent, is that what you would do? Or would you go for the 70% chance? Takes all kinds.” Personally, I think fraud and corruption had a whole lot to do with November 6, 2012.

This reporter called on some of those in line, asking some simple questions concerning why they showed up today to perform their civic duty. The answers usually began with a declaration of unwavering support for the president. So what were the issues that animated them in the campaign? Their answers were largely couched in generalities, warm pockets of feel-good social “rights” issues, that sounded line-and-verse like Obama campaign talking points.

“Women’s rights”, “gay marriage”, “planned parenthood”, “social welfare” rang out time and time again. The economic issues Mitt Romney hammered on were nowhere to be found — these voters were participating in an alternate election, one based on the social issues hand-crafted by team Obama. Without any specifics, but in full faith, these young voters stood, ready to cast their sacred ballots for the incumbent.

To any conservative wondering where they went astray this cycle, observe the religious-like conviction of the voters here when rattling off their liberal talking points. However, beyond the rhetoric, how much do these eager voters know about our American government? Just a few questions, then: How many Senators are there? How many Congressmen? Supreme Court Justices? Who is Nancy Pelosi? Harry Reid? Can you name an amendment to the Constitution?

The answers inform. Was this election truly a rebuke of conservatism and its principles? Or was it a function of the masterful marketing of emotions, niche issues and even revenge? Judging by what you’re about to observe, the answer seems pretty obvious:

To win that game, to create an electorate more deeply committed to true liberty and resistant to the sort of cultural scare tactics the president’s campaign team used so effectively, there are three areas to which conservatives need to commit intellectual and financial resources—three areas that our intelligentsia and funders, in their impractical practicality, too often ignore.

The mainstream news media. Major news outlets, like ABC, NBC, CBS, and the still influential New York Times have now become so ideologically corrupt that they are engaging in the sort of Nixonian cover-ups they once prided themselves on exposing. Their studied creation of non-scandal scandals and non-gaffe gaffes on the right and their active suppression of such true scandals as Fast and Furious and Benghazi on the left amount to journalistic malpractice on behalf of the state. The late Andrew Breitbart understood the depth and extent of the problem better than the cooler establishment heads who wrinkled their noses at him. He declared a guerrilla war on the media in the name of truth.

While Breitbart disciples like John Nolte, Ben Shapiro, and Joel Pollak continue that underground fight, it is long past time for conservative minds and money to take the battle to the mainstream. How is it possible that the mind-boggling success of Fox News has failed to spawn half a dozen imitators at least—especially venues for the libertarian young with their antic sense of political incorrectness? Rupert Murdoch, God love him, can’t live forever. It’s time for others to step up.

In June, a diffident and self-deluded President Obama claimed that “the private sector is doing fine.” Last week, the private sector responded: Speak for yourself, buster. Who needs an “October Surprise” when the business headlines are broadcasting the imminent layoff bomb in neon lights?

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported last Tuesday that employers issued 1,316 “mass layoff actions” (affecting 50 workers or more) in September; more than 122,000 workers were affected overall. USA Today financial reporter Matt Krantz wrote that “(m)uch of the recent layoff activity is connected to what’s been the slowest period of earnings growth since the third quarter of 2009.” Some necessary restructuring is underway in response to the stagnant European economy. But more and more U.S. businesses are putting the blame — bravely and squarely — right where it belongs: on the obstructionist policies and regulatory schemes of the blame-shifter-in-chief.

For me, yesterday’s election didn’t change a thing. I’m still at the old stand providing you the latest 411 on the decline of America, the end of Israel and the collapse of Western Civilization. Stay tuned. It’s going to be a sight to see!
Oh, and then there’s this:

45 companies announce layoff's in the past 48 hours! This is what the people wanted! The people have spoken!

The world’s biggest hamburger chain said Thursday that a key sales figure fell for the first time in nearly a decade in October, as it faced the double whammy of a challenging economy abroad and intensifying competition at home. The company, based in Oak Brook, Ill., says global revenue at restaurants open at least 13 months fell 1.8 percent for the month. The last time it dropped was in March 2003.

The greatest satisfaction today over the re-election of Obama is not being felt in the Democratic Party. It is not being felt among the media, who are no longer objective observers but have turned instead into corrupt partisans who ruthlessly censored the truth about Obama and helped peddle his demonising propaganda about his opponent. It is not being felt among the gloating, drooling decadents of the western left who now scent a great blood-letting of all who dare defy their secular inquisition. No, the greatest satisfaction is surely being felt in Iran.

With four more years of Obama in the White House, Iran can now be sure that it will be able to complete its infernal construction of a genocide bomb to use against the Jews and the west. World War Three has now come a lot closer.

President Obama must have run a great campaign considering the tremendous numbers he put up in numerous big cities. Over in Philadelphia, he was lucky enough to get 90% percent turnout in some districts with over 99% of the vote.

As I pondered over this election I wondered how could so many pundits like Karl Rove, Dick Morris, Peggy Noonan all be so wrong when they are always so right on? They all had Romney and republicans winning by huge margins and said that more republicans than democrats showed up in the polls and in early voting? In the end Romney lost by 2% o the popular vote but 25% of the electoral vote. Then stories like this appeared. In South Carolina voting machines were coming up Obama when Romney’s name was pushed. In Wisconsin the same thing happened. A friend of mine said that in his district a women complained that every time she hit a vote for Romney, the whole dem line lit up so they had two members, one from each party come over to check it out. They did a few manipulations and everything apparently went alright then another man complained of the same thing. My friend didn’t have any problems. With electronic voting like this you wonder with so many hackers hacking into other people’s computers and stealing identities it is very possible they could hack into voting machines too.
Then there was this situation.
A couple from Forest Park showed up yesterday at the polls to vote just like they have ever since they turned 18. When it was their turn, they were both told that they had already voted via absentee ballot. The couple said that they have never voted absentee and wanted to know how this could happen.
Precinct officials told them that they could fill out a provisional ballot, which they did.
Before long, a number of other voters in the same precinct were told the same thing, that they had already voted via absentee ballots and that they also needed to fill out a provisional ballot. Eventually, voting officials said that the mistake was due to ‘human error’ and that anyone else in the same situation would likewise have to cast a provisional ballot. In Ohio, provisional ballots are not counted until 10 days after the election.

Not shockingly, immediately after President Obama was reelected for a second term, his administration reinforced its support for the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty [ATT], also known as the “Small Arms Treaty.” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been expressing full support of the treaty on behalf of the United States for years now while for political reasons, President Obama sat back. Now, the entire administration will be out front in support of ratifying it.

Louisiana Republican Rep. John Fleming issued a statement late Thursday rebuking Speaker of the House John Boehner for making promises to the national news media without first discussing the pledges with fellow House Republicans.

In an interview with ABC News’ Diane Sawyer on Thursday, Boehner promised that Republicans in Congress next year would focus primarily on developing a “comprehensive approach” to immigration reform, as well as on searching for new revenues for the federal government.

But Boehner apparently didn’t clear that message with members of his own caucus before preaching it to the national news media.

“I’m concerned that Speaker Boehner is getting ahead of House Republicans when he commits to getting a ‘comprehensive approach’ to immigration taken care of ‘once and for all,’” Fleming said in a late Thursday evening statement.

“There’s been zero discussion of this issue within the conference, and I’m urging the Speaker to talk with House Republicans before making pledges on the national news. The first thing we need is for President Obama to finally enforce current immigration law and strengthen our borders. To take up any other agenda is bad policy for the American people and bad politics for Republicans. The Speaker needs to pull back on this issue and stop negotiating in public.”

I couldn’t disagree with Krauthammer more, I refuse to compromise my values and principles. History is replete with examples of the Republicans “reaching out” to the Hispanic and Black communities, it has never gotten us anywhere with them. The dimoCrap party own them part and parcel, mostly because of years of disinformation and giveaways.

President Reagan signed into law the 1986 Simpson – Mazolli Act, that granted amnesty to some 3 million illegals with assurances of “enforcement” of the border and employer sanctions. None of which ever came to pass and Reagan later admitted it might have been one of his biggest mistakes giving into the dimoCraps.

Mark Levin’s opening monologues on Wednesday and Thursday night knocked these issues/problems out of the park, he nailed it. We keep nominating the entrenched party favorites and party moderates that only guarantee the next election loss. We prominently featured at the RNC convention how many minority party stars this cycle? All with truly inspiring success stories that anyone could be proud of. The dimocraps have been working on changing the demographics of this Country for the last fifty years, ever since the ’65 dead ted kennedy immigration legislation, thus ensuring the dims a solid and consistent vote. Anyone who hasn’t been paying attention should be ashamed of themselves, it was so obvious. How can so many usually smart people keep getting duped over these issues?

Saw that. Very – uh — strange.
We’re not supposed to take that as anything other than what he’s saying – an extra marital affair. I have my doubts.
And it remains to be seen whether he’ll testify at the Benghazi hearings, week.

Everyone is asking the wrong questions about this. Just two days after the election? This wouldn’t keep him from testifying, they would just subpoena him to testify.

There are only a couple of possibilities on this:
Rolling Stone took him out like they did McChrystal
Was it moveon.org …..remember General Betrayus?
Or did the chicago boys wait until the election was over and then took out their biggest threat. He could’ve walked away with the Republican nomination and rumors have been he was talked into retirement and given the CIA job in order to eliminate him as a potential opponent.

OR Petraeus suddenly lost his mind and decided to go out and get laid in celebration of cheobama winning the election, then decided to resign in after thought.

Still stunned that 3 million less republican voters stayed home this time than did for mccain? My God people, who the hell are you holding out for, for your ideal candidate?? As Mark Levin said a few years ago, I would vote for an empty tuna can over obama. We on the right now have an almost unsurmountable task to get our side back into power again, let alone clueless, whiney potential GOP voters who don’t like some small detail or the other. Wake up and smell the socialism will you?

So it seems that there may be something to all of this, it may well be over a extramarital affair, but many questions remain about it.

When did the FBI learn of it and who and when did they notify about it. How did all of a sudden all this hit just three days after the election and not before. It seems that there was a suspicion that Petraeus may have been being blackmailed and the FBI was investigating his biographer Paula Broadwell and they stumbled on information through emails that lead to this all blowing up. What opened the investigation still isn’t fully clear and needs to be explained.

Kinda gives you a whole new perspective on the name of the book . . . . . “All In”. eh?
[in more ways than one]

There’s something very wrong about the timing of this. It comes out after the election, but BEFORE the hearings next week? Uh-uh. Something very Chicagoey is going on, here..Petraeus may have gotten some of the stench of this corrupt regime on him, and he just wants out, now. Affair or no affair, there’s no reason why he shouldn’t testify.
He must be subpoenaed.